Pinkus Pils

Brewed by Brauerei Pinkus Müller
Style: Classic German Pilsener
Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

500 ml bottle. A wonderful organic Pilsner. Pours a beautiful hazy light gold. Yeasty aroma. Very large stable head. I am happy with the attenuated bitterness, relatively low carbonation, and the overall bread-iness. Lingering and pleasingly mild finish. A beer to enjoy, not to overwhelm.

Pours a bit hazy golden with a two finger white frothy head. The nose is sweet with bready and malty influences with a touch of bitter. The flavor is the same, with a nice bitterclean finish and a surprising smooth mouthfeel.

Poured into a pilsener glass. Hazy straw color with a smallish white head that leaves no lacing. Aroma is lemony and wheaty. Lots of yeasty wheaty flavors here with little grain or hop. Lemon, unripe banana, and hay make up the flavor profile. Pretty drinkable despite a less-than-clean mouthfeel.

Apple dried apple applets and cider all in one nose. The flavor is not as sweet and has a good crispness. perhaps lemon brûlée crisp and refreshing. Well crafted like the fist offering. Is the watter?

Sweet, candied apple nose. Thin mouthfeel. Sweet front end, Lightly spiced carbonation, tart. Crisp, with a light hop back end. High drinkability. An extremely pleasant surprise.

Pours bright gold into a pilsner. Bright white micro head quickly recedes to hug rim leaving no lacing. Malt and lager yeast aromas. Crisp and dry with upfront caramel and a sharp hop finish. Refreshing.

Golden light yellow pour with thin head. Slightly hazy, but not as much as hoped for from an unfiltered brew. Thin layer of head stuck around or the duration. Pleasantly skunky hops and grass on the nose with a wheaty and metallic edge. Same on the tongue but with a flavor reminiscent of grape bubble gum (?) and with the metallic bitter edge more pronounced. Little pepper/spice at the end. Crisp... almost too crisp? Quite good, and I can see myself drinking it relatively often, but probably not too many in one session.

A reasonably soft pour produces an almost three-finger thick, frothy, pale, off-white colored head that retains quite a bit of structure as it slowly recedes. The beer is a lightly hazed honey color that is incredibly well carbonated and shows an almost clear, straw-gold color when held up to the light. The aroma smells of sweet grain, hay, lightly herbal hops and lemon zest. While this has some hop notes, the nose is quite grain focused and actually the aroma is fairly complexly malty considering that it is a Pils.

Clean, sweet grain flavors are tempered just a touch by a crisp hop bitterness that becomes more noticeable upon the second quaff. This somehow tastes a bit like watered down lemon juice without the tartness (if that makes any sense). Grassy / hay like notes seem to be contributed by both the grain and hop character and this is no where as sweet as my first sip of this seemed to have suggested. This does have a hint of tartness to it and perhaps even a wisp of diacetyl is just barely noticeable. The malt character is the most interesting thing in the flavor, though perhaps not quite to the same level as the aroma; saltine cracker grain notes, and a pale malt character add just enough to make this somewhat interesting.

Not bad, but does not really seem a very good example of a pills. I do like the grain character here, but it is not enough to really make this good.

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